This is a minimalist take on things I do and experience most days. By taking a minimalist view on the visuals I have created an atmospheric little story with various levels of interaction and intrigue.
This was made using Game Maker, all graphics and sounds are my own from my imagination and any living coincidences to peoples who may or may not be collected on the way to work are purely fictitious or something that sounds legal.
UPDATE 1: a couple of people have asked me for controls. With the theme being minimalism I wanted people to pick up and play without tutorials But just for reference
MOUSE - front end navigation Once you have selected Male or Female character THEN
A OR Left Arrow = left D OR Right Arrow = right SPACE = Interact
UPDATE 2: There appears to be an issue with "parking" when you get to work. Inconsistent but occasionally there is a spawn cycle of NPC's.
UPDATE 3:
Performance seems to be the main thread of feedback and unfortunately it is something I just don't understand. For some reason, the game will grind to a halt occasionally when interacting or queuing up an audio file. The odd thing is, if you close it and start again, it works fine. Typical tech support advice BUT it seems to work at the moment. Best I can do is apologise and say "don't give up! you haven't met the spaceman yet!" or "the twist in the story is later!" :)
FINAL UPDATE: Fixed a crash bug with the kitchen scene and that has had a knock on of fixing the frame rate and stability issues game wide. Quite happy with that actually.
Thank you Mythalore! The performance is something that concerns me... If it was consistent i could do something about it but it is so random. Some times it runs like a dream, other times it chugs and crashes. Same PC, same settings etc. madness. Still, thanks for taking the time to play it :)
What I loved : - the concept (close to mine in fact :p) - finished and clean - color scheme consistency
What imo could be improved : - consistency in the story (either it goes a bit everywhere and doesn't tell a full story, or I did not understand what was behind) - a few bug with controls (freeze when changing direction, not sure I when I presses space it was efficient each time) - for the space key thing, a tip would be to audio or display an immediate feedback
Really enjoyed it, I feel almost like it was a day in the life of myself, minus the basketball potentially, and the driving, but still thoroughly enjoyed.
Had no issues with the game itself and I had fun throwing a few dozen basketballs :)
I also always imagined space tea would come down on a little parachute.
Very cool. I also chose to do a life sim, but it turned out very different! Couple of bugs - got a code error after getting in the car and got stuck completely when I got to work, couldn't progress any more. Love the art, audio, narrative, and theme. Excellent.
Hi everyone, sorry for the errors, just seen that when I export it Via an EXE I get some issues that are not present when it is installed. Removed link for the moment until I can fix it. Thanks to Eternal_Rest for the heads up!
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SuperlevelSebastian4 May 2013, 09:36
Got this error message at driving start:
" ___________________________________________ ############################################################################################ ERROR in action number 1 of Key Release Event for <Space> Key
for object FEMGETCAR:
Creating instance for non-existing object: -100 at gml_Object_FEMGETCAR_KeyRelease_32 (line -1) - <unknown source line> ############################################################################################"
Then it went on, but hanged up at the games studio.
Lovely accompanying music, space tea and a day in the life that is satisfying, brilliant first LD!!!